06-03-2007, 08:03 PM
There are basically three books on deputy badges going back to 1995
1. Art of Russian Metal Miniatures
Udacha 1995, Lvov by Likhitsky
The book comes in three different editions. The first was in English and German and of a smaller size with black and white photos. The second and third were in Russian or Russian, English, and German. They were larger size and with color photos. Apparently he used the funds from the first English/German edition to publish in Russian. All three show the same badges and include some 106 different deputy badges.
Some of his descriptions are incorrect when it comes to Armenian or Georgian since they did not read either. Some of the badges are out of chronological order but all in all a good tool for the time.
It was inexpensive back in the 1990's especially in the english black and white edition, but out of print now.
2. Avers 2
Avers #2 by Krivtsov, V.D. Published in Moscow 1996 is the second book. Avers 1 has some deputy badges which are repeated and expanded in Avers 2. Avers 2 also includes a numbering of illustration so that it can be used as a reference. As we all know his pricing is irrelevant. And you should be aware so is his history. He has all red flags from the 1960's when no republic still used that flag.
Avers also confuses badges for Tatarstan and Turkmenistan, Georgia and Armenia and Abhakzia. IT does include some 118 illustrations. This book and Udacha both include some not in each other. It it written in Russian and English and includes English as well as Russian captions beneath the illustrations.
3. New best on the market - Decoration Badges of Highest Organs of Power 1917 - 1991.
By A.I. Mekhonoshin in Ekatrinburg, 2006.
This book is currently the ne plus ultra, for deputy badges, being solely dedicated to showing badges and their history. The book shows (or lists) some 290 different badges. It includes more than 20 badges which "should" exist but he has not yet seen. There must have been more than one TsIK (Please note I tend to use the Russian transliterated TsIK in lieu of the English CEK.) badge for the German Villages of the Volga since they had apparently 16 convocations. (Early badges were not necessarily in the shape of flags, and he only shows the so called 'flag pins.') So as place holders until someone presents the bages he has blank spaces as fillers with numbers all ready for that next illusive badge.
(See attached photo of one of the "missing" German TsIK badges.)
Meknonoshin gives numbers of members to each soviet or TsIK congress, dates of congress, and identification of likely mint marks on each variant. (There may be some minor issues with the reveres designations in that I have seen MMD early on some republics and on the subsequent congress MD for another republic.) But those issues tend to be minor.
One complaint is ordering of chapters based on some system that I cannot figure out or remember. Moldova precedes Latvia which precedes Kirghiz. That is not any alphabet nor chronological system that I can follow or remember.
Still, it is the best out there, and has made me regret having sold/traded off more than 40 duplicate badges only to now discover that they might not have bee duplicates. (Afterall, who bothered to count the number of rays beneathe the blue enamel on all those Estonia badges?)(Are we getting to the point of counting angels on the head of the pin?)
Now I am going to have to try to see if I can call that guy and see if he really wants those duplicates that I sold him.
Expensive but if you care about these badges and their accompanying history, worth the price. Oh, and the book is only in Russian so some knowledge of Russian would help. But you scan still see the pictures and read the numbers and dates and we all can figure out ACCP = ASSR. Some of the translation is easy.
1. Art of Russian Metal Miniatures
Udacha 1995, Lvov by Likhitsky
The book comes in three different editions. The first was in English and German and of a smaller size with black and white photos. The second and third were in Russian or Russian, English, and German. They were larger size and with color photos. Apparently he used the funds from the first English/German edition to publish in Russian. All three show the same badges and include some 106 different deputy badges.
Some of his descriptions are incorrect when it comes to Armenian or Georgian since they did not read either. Some of the badges are out of chronological order but all in all a good tool for the time.
It was inexpensive back in the 1990's especially in the english black and white edition, but out of print now.
2. Avers 2
Avers #2 by Krivtsov, V.D. Published in Moscow 1996 is the second book. Avers 1 has some deputy badges which are repeated and expanded in Avers 2. Avers 2 also includes a numbering of illustration so that it can be used as a reference. As we all know his pricing is irrelevant. And you should be aware so is his history. He has all red flags from the 1960's when no republic still used that flag.
Avers also confuses badges for Tatarstan and Turkmenistan, Georgia and Armenia and Abhakzia. IT does include some 118 illustrations. This book and Udacha both include some not in each other. It it written in Russian and English and includes English as well as Russian captions beneath the illustrations.
3. New best on the market - Decoration Badges of Highest Organs of Power 1917 - 1991.
By A.I. Mekhonoshin in Ekatrinburg, 2006.
This book is currently the ne plus ultra, for deputy badges, being solely dedicated to showing badges and their history. The book shows (or lists) some 290 different badges. It includes more than 20 badges which "should" exist but he has not yet seen. There must have been more than one TsIK (Please note I tend to use the Russian transliterated TsIK in lieu of the English CEK.) badge for the German Villages of the Volga since they had apparently 16 convocations. (Early badges were not necessarily in the shape of flags, and he only shows the so called 'flag pins.') So as place holders until someone presents the bages he has blank spaces as fillers with numbers all ready for that next illusive badge.
(See attached photo of one of the "missing" German TsIK badges.)
Meknonoshin gives numbers of members to each soviet or TsIK congress, dates of congress, and identification of likely mint marks on each variant. (There may be some minor issues with the reveres designations in that I have seen MMD early on some republics and on the subsequent congress MD for another republic.) But those issues tend to be minor.
One complaint is ordering of chapters based on some system that I cannot figure out or remember. Moldova precedes Latvia which precedes Kirghiz. That is not any alphabet nor chronological system that I can follow or remember.
Still, it is the best out there, and has made me regret having sold/traded off more than 40 duplicate badges only to now discover that they might not have bee duplicates. (Afterall, who bothered to count the number of rays beneathe the blue enamel on all those Estonia badges?)(Are we getting to the point of counting angels on the head of the pin?)
Now I am going to have to try to see if I can call that guy and see if he really wants those duplicates that I sold him.
Expensive but if you care about these badges and their accompanying history, worth the price. Oh, and the book is only in Russian so some knowledge of Russian would help. But you scan still see the pictures and read the numbers and dates and we all can figure out ACCP = ASSR. Some of the translation is easy.
